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Revision as of 18:01, 30 September 2006

The debate surrounding RFID is one that hits close to home for UW students. The CSE building is currently going through a large scale RFID deployment, foreshadowing what is to come in shops, offices, homes, and cities. In this whitepaper, we explore the broader practical, legal and sociopolitical implications of the technology.

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RFID overview

Technical questions and answers

Legal questions and answers

Sociopolitical questions and answers

RFID Resources

Ongoing academic research

Deployed or on the horizon RFID applications

Government

  • Passports (trial programs in a few countries, e.g. US)
  • Encryption on the passports Wired article

Commercial

  • supply-side tracking of inventory (e.g. walmart)
  • gathering more detailed information about consumers (increasing information asymmetry between sellers/buyers)
  • enabling buyers to gather more information about products (decreasing above information asymmetry)

Security concerns

Privacy & Surveillance concerns

Laws regulating RFID

Companies and organizations involved in pushing out RFID technologies